--- title: Competitive Eater Devours a Whole Turkey description: Competitive eater Joey Chestnut cleaned 9.35 pounds of meat off of meat off of a 20 pound turkey on Saturday, breaking a new record in the field of competitive eating. canonical: https://time.com/3602196/eating-competition-whole-turkey-joey-chestnut/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-24T15:37:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:47.581Z og:title: Competitive Eater Devours a Whole Turkey og:description: Competitive eater Joey Chestnut cleaned 9.35 pounds of meat off of meat off of a 20 pound turkey on Saturday, breaking a new record in the field of competitive eating. og:url: https://time.com/3602196/eating-competition-whole-turkey-joey-chestnut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3af725b2285e39f7/69876a8855a85971e1a84483/451717088.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2014 Nathan's Famous 4th July International Hot Dog Eating Contest og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Competitive Eater Devours a Whole Turkey twitter:description: Competitive eater Joey Chestnut cleaned 9.35 pounds of meat off of meat off of a 20 pound turkey on Saturday, breaking a new record in the field of competitive eating. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3af725b2285e39f7/69876a8855a85971e1a84483/451717088.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Competitive Eater Devours a 20-Pound Turkey Whole > Sponsored content. 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Bobby Bank—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Nov 24, 2014 3:37 PM UTC Competitive eater Joey Chestnut cleaned 9.35 pounds of meat off of a 20 pound turkey on Saturday, breaking a new record in the field of competitive eating. Chestnut devoured nearly twice as much meat in 10 minutes as the previous record-holder, Sonya Thomas, who put down 5.25 pounds of turkey meat in 2011, the _Associated Press_ [reports](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FTURKEY%5FEATING%5FCONTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-23-18-34-27#fd7ffac9-a232-43d2-9f2f-d5ba43251a6c). The legendary gobbler, who [scarfed down 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the Coney Island contest](http://time.com/2957095/joey-chestnut-coney-island-hot-dogs/) this year, polished off the whole bird at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. He won $5,000 in reward money, while the remainder of the pot, $10,000, was split among the nine contenders. \[[_AP_](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FTURKEY%5FEATING%5FCONTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-23-18-34-27#fd7ffac9-a232-43d2-9f2f-d5ba43251a6c)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3602196/eating-competition-whole-turkey-joey-chestnut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3602196/eating-competition-whole-turkey-joey-chestnut/"},"headline":"Competitive Eater Devours a 20-Pound Turkey Whole","datePublished":"2014-11-24T15:37:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:47.581Z","description":"Competitive eater Joey Chestnut cleaned 9.35 pounds of meat off of meat off of a 20 pound turkey on Saturday, breaking a new record in the field of competitive eating.","url":"https://time.com/3602196/eating-competition-whole-turkey-joey-chestnut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Turkey","Thanksgiving"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3af725b2285e39f7/69876a8855a85971e1a84483/451717088.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3af725b2285e39f7/69876a8855a85971e1a84483/451717088.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2014 Nathan's Famous 4th July International Hot Dog Eating Contest","caption":"2014 Nathan's Famous 4th July International Hot Dog Eating Contest","creditText":"Bobby Bank—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3602196/eating-competition-whole-turkey-joey-chestnut/","name":"Competitive Eater Devours a 20-Pound Turkey Whole"}}]}] ```